Apple might be in trouble with US government agencies for iPhone performance throttling

The iPhone throttling scandal is far from over, as Apple still needs to answer questions from the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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The era of great smartphone battery life has come – and gone

Editor’s note: In the gulf between iPhone releases and in the run-up to the next Windows Phone resurrection, the ratio of Android to non-Android phones in our review inventory continues to rise. As a result, this piece is written from a predominantly Android-centric perspective.Everybody wants awesome smartphone battery life. Whether you’re addicted to the latest power-draining augmented reality game or just trying to get through a day of texting and talking, the panic moment is a familiar ...

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Extreme Power Saving turns the HTC One M8 into a cameraless dumbphone (that lasts for days)

Sometimes, all you need is a phone. Not a digital assistant, not a pocket internet tablet, not a gaming platform. Of course all of those things are nice, and the enhanced features smartphones bring to bear have become essential to millions around the world. But thanks to the realities of battery endurance and processor capabilities, most of today’s smartphones offer a variation on the same promise: “From the moment I come off the charger until the moment I lose power, I will be a smartphone. Nothing less.” With the unsubtly-named Extreme Power Saver feature, HTC looks to ...

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